United States of America

Gurpreet Sandhu will be celebrating St Patrick's Day this year with great fervor. In fact from green fields to green four leaf clovers,the USA Under 19 cricket lads will be getting their Irish on as the team marched today into the ICC Global Qualifiers in Ireland this summer - one jig closer to the 2012 Under 19 World Cup.

2011 is a big year for batsman/fast bowler Mital Patel, he was selected to be in the USA Under 19 team,playing in February in the ICC Americas Qualifier for the 2012 U19 World Cup. Then in March he represents Rutgers University in the American College Cricket Spring Break Championship.
Currently a freshman at Rutgers University Mital Patel is studying for a Finance and Medicine Double Major, "I wanted to choose something that would combine a branch of business with the field of medicine," he explained.

The first International sports contest was USA vs Canada, in a cricket match in 1844 .It took place in New York City at the St George's Cricket Club in Bloomingdale Park, where the NYU Medical Center now stands at 31 st & 1st Ave. About 20,000 spectators watched and over $ 1 million (in present day currency) in bets were placed.

The final squads for the ICC World Cricket League Division Three competition, which runs from 21st to 29th January in Hong Kong, have been confirmed.
Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Oman, USA and Papua New Guinea are competing and the top two sides will earn promotion to Division Two, which will be held in the United Arab Emirates in April.

The United States of America Cricket Association (USACA) is facing a legal battle after North American Cricket League - Twenty20 Inc. (NACL) filed a civil action against them following attempts to set up an official Twenty20 league in the USA.
The news comes soon after the USACA had inked an historic deal with New Zealand Cricket (NZC) that is aimed to nurture the sport in America...